TRIVIA:
QUOTES:
CHUCKLES/BELLY
LAUGHS & GROANERS
TRIVIA:
The
final two Presidents in this series: James Abram Garfield & Chester
Alan Arthur.
James
Abram Garfield
* His mother attended
his inauguration.
* James Garfield
could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.
* A book published
in 1940 contained 370 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, including one
by Garfield.
* Garfield was the
second president shot in office. Doctors tried to find the bullet with
a metal detector invented
by Alexander Graham Bell. But the device failed because Garfield was placed
on a bed with metal springs,
and no one thought to move him. He died on September 19, 1881.
* Garfield was our
first left-handed president.
* He was the first
president to campaign in more than one language.
* Garfield was the
last of seven presidents to be born in a log cabin.
* Garfield juggled
clubs to build his muscles.
* He was named after
his older brother James, who died in infancy, and his father, Abram Garfield.
* Garfield was the
only president to have been a preacher.
Chester
Alan Arthur
* Arthur sold twenty-six
wagons full of White House furniture for about eight thousand dollars.
He did not know
was that the furniture was priceless.
* Arthur changed
his pants several times a day. He had over 80 pairs!
* He didn't
make an Inaugural Address.
* His favorite
food was mutton chops.
* Arthur was
the first president to take the Oath of Office in his own home.
* Arthur's
citizenship was questioned when political opponents alleged that he was
born across the Vermont
border in Canada. Arthur denied this and continued on with his term.
* Arthur destroyed
all of his personal papers before his death.
* He often
took his friends on late night walks around Washington D.C. as early as
three or four in the morning.
He seldom went to bed before two o'clock.
* Arthur was
a skilled fisherman. He belonged to the Restigouche Salmon Club, a group
of New York anglers
who fished in Canada.
* He was named
after Dr. Chester Abell, the physician who delivered him, and his grandfather,
Alan Arthur.
QUOTES:
"I was a vegetarian until I started leaning
toward the sunlight."
-Rita Rudner
"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand
furniture."
-Helen Rowland
"Success is the ability to go from one failure
to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Bachelors know more about women than married
men; if they didn't, they'd be married too."
-H. L. Mencken
"A person without a sense of humor is like
a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble in the road."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It
is not fair that some men should be happier than others."
-Oscar Wilde
"It is always with the best intentions that
the worst work is done."
-Oscar Wilde
"Reality is the leading cause of stress among
those in touch with it. "
-Lily Tomlin
